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| | Sussex - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | The Weald Clay occupies a belt of lower ground on the south and west of the Hastings Sands, it consists of blue and mottled clays with thin sand layers and beds of hard limestone, the " Sussex marble" with the shells of Paludina. |
 | | Norman influence was already strong in Sussex before the Conquest; the harbours of Hastings, Rye, Winchelsea and Steyning being in the power of the Norman abbey of Fecamp, while the Norman chaplain of Edward the Confessor, Osbern, afterwards bishop of Exeter, held the estate of Bosham. |
 | | Sussex, from its position, was constantly the scene of preparations for invasion, and was often concerned in rebellions. |
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